Houston Power Outages Still Top 1.3 Million With Slow Recovery
- Blackouts are disrupting service at cell phone towers
- The Houston area remains under a heat advisory for Wednesday
A Kroger grocery store without power in Houston, Texas on July 9.
Photographer: Mark Felix/BloombergThe lights are slowly turning back on Houston — though the key word there is slowly.
Roughly 1.7 million homes and businesses were still without power in Texas on Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us. The majority of the problems are concentrated in Houston, with the area’s main utility, CenterPoint Energy Inc., accounting for almost 1.4 million of those outages.